Saddle Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Saddle Quotes from famous authors such as Daniel H. Hill, Nick Rahall, Ralph Northam, Mary Webb, Jackie Kennedy. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

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Jackson went from the professor’s chair to the officer’s saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.
Daniel H. Hill
2
Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.
Nick Rahall
3
After high school, I attended the Virginia Military Institute and then Eastern Virginia Medical School – both great public schools that prepared me well for my career as a physician and didn’t saddle me with a load of debt.
Ralph Northam
4
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
Mary Webb
5
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Jackie Kennedy
6
There is nothing like going on a stage. You are in the saddle, and you’ve got to ride that horse, and there’s nothing more thrilling and exhilarating.
Beth Grant
7
Saddle bronc is the quintessential rodeo sport – not the chaos of bull riding or the thrashing of bareback riding. It might be harder than both.
John Branch
8
In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.
Pedro Almodovar
9
I’ve ridden shopping bikes. My dad held my saddle and pushed me along when I was five. I’ve had a go on a BMX.
Zoe Ball
10
‘Misty of Chincoteague’, ‘The Black Stallion’, the ‘Saddle Club’ books, I read ’em all. I was horse-crazy.
Maggie Stiefvater
11
Bierce radiates brilliancy, and perhaps no other man of letters ever had a more ready command of condensed expression. For him, each word has its unique place in the peerage of words, and he would not use a word out of place any sooner than he would thrust an ape into a captain’s saddle.
Edwin Markham
12
I grew up riding horses and one of the most important things I learned was that when you fall off, you have to get right back up in the saddle.
Katie Hill
13
My saddle horses are my friends. My dogs are my friends.
Wilford Brimley
14
James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn’t like this saddle.
Bill Callahan
15
I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity to the mountains – Christchurch is two hours distant from the worn saddle of Arthur’s Pass, the mountain village that was and is my father’s spiritual touchstone, his chapel and cathedral in the wild.
Eleanor Catton
16
I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing.
Peter Fonda
17
The reality of this Obamacare provision is that young adults will be forced to subsidize healthcare costs for older, financially stable, working-age Americans. At a time when 20-somethings face underemployment, record school debt and less economic opportunity, it is unfair to saddle them with this burden.
Phil Gingrey
18
I used to work for a spot called the ‘Saddle Ranch.’
Tyrus
19
I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.
Janelle Monae
20
Had I not stepped into the saddle in the first place, entire cultures, histories, and most importantly, profound connections with people and animals whom I now counted as my friends would have otherwise passed by, invisible.
Tim Cope
21
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
Rita Mae Brown
22
I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I’d say, ‘I’m still dead, Mom!’ I was Method, even then.
Creed Bratton
23
If somebody tells you that you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you so, buy yourself a saddle.
Sholom Aleichem
24
‘Back In The Saddle’ – I never realised what a good riff that was, or at least how much it satisfied me. And when we play it live, it comes across much better than I ever expected it to.
Joe Perry
25
When they saddle the leading man with violence it makes the characters look weak. If a man is a heroic type he doesn’t have to resort to violence. How many successful men in the world have to settle problems with their fists?
Sterling Hayden
26
My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among rather than upon his thick black locks. His back seemed as broad as that of an elephant, and with his slow, sure, resolute step, he was like a mountain in motion.
Isabella Bird
27
It has been difficult to get back on the saddle, particularly after getting whiplash and concussion, but it’s just about understanding that sometimes it’s OK to say, ‘I don’t want to get back on my bike for week.’
Lizzie Armitstead
28
I have brought many artifacts back with me from the steppe. My favourite is a 90-year-old Kazakh saddle decorated with silverwork in traditional motifs. It symbolises the deep relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian Steppe.
Tim Cope
29
I got everything I wanted from my parents: Brooks Brothers sweaters and Spalding saddle shoes.
Eileen Ford
30
You put a tuxedo on me, it’s like putting a saddle on a hog.
Bob Parsons
31
Sometimes I would have to get up before school, saddle my horse and go get cows in that had gotten out.
Sara Evans
32
I’ve done ‘Back in the Saddle Again’ so darn long, I could go to sleep and sing it.
Gene Autry
33
Nurses told my mother that I was going to be OK. They thought I could walk without a limp and without a brace. And we stopped in a shoe store on the way home and bought a pair of low-top saddle Oxford shoes, which was sort of a symbol that I was going to be a normal little boy.
Mitch McConnell
34
I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you’re going to have friction.
Eddie Van Halen
35
In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.
Harvey Cushing